Toilets and Water

"... none of us should tolerate a world in which over 1 million children are, in a perversely literal sense, dying for a glass of water and a toilet." Kevin Watkins, 2006

I know we are supposed to talking about the social impacts of intoxicants; however, we were talking about toilets in Econ and I ran across this. Why build schools when so many children need a potty and a glass of water? The builders of the Indus River Valley Civilization, perhaps the first, knew the value of water and sanitation. The Romans knew it. It took the people of western Europe in cities like London and Paris, a thousand years and a few plagues to figure it out. If an army marches on its stomach, then a population only lives with water. How happy were you this morning to stumble into the bathroom without much thought and take a hot shower? How can you help to give less privileged children the same basic human needs? For more information: Citation: "Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before." Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. .